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Thank you for visiting Sterling Baptist Church!

STERLING BAPTIST WORSHIPS EVERY SUNDAY...

We will be LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THIS WEEKEND!

We are DELIGHTED you stopped by for a visit. We, like you, are part of this community and want you to know you are welcome here any time the doors are open.

Our church is blessed every day through the mighty touch of our Heavenly Father. And, as He is blessing, we are growing, ministries are developing, and resources to help those around us are being added.

If you are considering a new place of worship, have relocated to our area, or want to find out who this good God is....come visit. Be our guest. We'll have coffee and juice available Sunday at 8:30am in the welcome center where we can meet and greet. We'll find a friend for you that will introduce you to our members and show you around.

Browse the website. We are always adding information daily just to give you a peek behind the screen and let you see what kind of place this is. It's a Sterling place. And it really is a place where you can belong.

Takers and Givers

Are you a taker or a giver? If you’re not sure how to answer that question, think about certain TV personalities. Even though they have genuine talent, their main motivations are ratings, image, approval and profits. Check their background. Chances are that the little girl who dressed up like Cinderella and insisted, ‘Look at me,’ now lives and performs for the approval of the crowd. Or the little boy who beat his chest to attract attention and shouted, ‘I’m Tarzan,’ now goes around with a sense of entitlement. John writes about a man, Diotrephes, ‘who loves to have the pre–eminence…’ (3 John 1:9 NKJV) Leadership coach Dan Reiland observes: ‘If communicators teach out of need, insecurity, ego, or even responsibility, they’re not giving. The needy person wants praise, something the audience must give. The insecure person wants approval and acceptance, something the audience must give. The egotistical person wants to be lifted up, to be superior and just a little bit better than everyone else, something the audience must give. Even the person motivated by responsibility wants to be recognised as the faithful worker, to be seen as responsible—something the audience must bestow upon them. Many communicators teach in one of these modes all the time and aren’t aware of it. Then there’s the giver. This person teaches out of love, grace, gratitude, compassion, passion, and the overflow. These are all giving modes. In each of these modes of the heart the audience doesn’t have to give anything—only receive. The teaching then becomes a gift. It fills and renews.’ Today, ask God to help you become a giver and not a taker.